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Grab’s Earnings Bouncing Back To Pre-COVID Numbers

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Grab counts Softbank among its biggest investors and has evolved from a ride-hail startup in 2012 to a multi-faceted tech company that was last valued at $14 billion. But as the region recovers, businesses like Grab are starting to recuperate. The startup is planning to offer loans and other wealth management tools.

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Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston

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Charlie Baker said he is glad Amazon is planning to “increase their substantial presence” in the state, which is a base for a “nation-leading innovation economy with a highly educated and skilled workforce.”. We look forward to a strong partnership with Amazon Robotics,” she said.

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What Iran Can – And Won’t – Do In A Cyberwar

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Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) — managed by nonprofit MITRE , in support of the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence — said it’s important to put the cyberthreats, and Iran’s willingness to deploy them, in context. cloaked well enough so that the U.S.

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Election Season Has SMEs Stressed, Says Research

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According to researchers, the Small Business Economic Survey found that SMEs in the region are more pessimistic about the nation’s economy in 2016 than they were in 2015. According to Union Bank, during the 2012 election year, the survey found similar evidence of uneasiness and uncertainty about the nation’s economy.

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Report: 64 Percent Of Countries Have Money Laundering Risk

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There is no quantification of how much money is actually flowing through money-laundering activities and across different nations. Progress has been slow, where only 17 percent of firms improved their score by one point over the period stretching from 2012 to 2018. What Must Be Done.

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Training Employees to Soar at Community Bank in Mississippi

American Banker

take a select group of up-and-coming managers on a three-day retreat. The trips are part of a management training course known as the Falcon Program that took flight in 2012. Roughly once a quarter senior executives at Community Bank in Brandon, Miss.,

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Guest Post: First Quarter Economic Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The ice storm that hit our region (Philadelphia Region) with damage and over 700,0000 power outages was perhaps the worst storm. nationally. Spring-At Last We are all thankful to leave the brutal winter of 2014 behind, especially the polar vortex! The constant barrage of snowstorms was mind numbing.